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Supply Chain & Logistics News Round Up (October 7th-11th 2024)

Logistics Viewpoints

Fernandez, visiting Portugal, claimed that China is overproducing lithium in response to U.S. While this pricing strategy impacts other producers, including those in Portugal, it has also forced Chinese companies to reduce output and cut jobs. US Official Says China is Oversupplying Lithium to Eliminate Rivals A senior U.S.

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Get Acquainted with Applying for NHR Portugal!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Here, you will learn the basic peculiarities that can be suggested in order to give an overall intro to NHR Portugal. So, if you had any doubts before, now, you probably see more sense in applying for NHR Portugal as soon as possible. Check Whether You Can Request NHR Portugal at All. Let’s start!

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World Cup fever: Scoring the goal

DELMIA Quintiq

During a game, a football player has to make decisions based on the information at hand, including which players are around him.Obviously, there are limits to how much information he can take in or process, and this limits his choices.

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Bringing Freight Online with WebCargoNet and Freightos

Freightos

In Portugal it took a mere two months to snap up every airline and capture 40% of the forwarder market. So at the peak of the global crisis – with Spain being particularly hard hit – and despite pleas from their families, the two teenagers quit their studies and started a freight revolution. They never looked back.

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Two Kinds of Supply Chain Risk and How to Prepare for Them

ToolsGroup

A key test came when Shamir had to shut down its European distribution center in Portugal for two months to introduce a new warehouse management system (WMS). Global prescription lens maker Shamir Optical needed to restructure its distribution network following a merger and re-privatization.

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Doing Business in Spain

QAD

Bordering countries include Andorra, France, Gibraltar, Portugal and Morocco. Primary trading partners included France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, the U.K. The economy has turned around in the past several years, and Spain now enjoys strong GDP growth of 3%, exceeding the EU average. Spain is about five times the size of the U.S.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 30 – November 3, 2017)

Talking Logistics

Song of the Week: “Live in the Moment” by Portugal. A lot more education and selling needs to take place in order for blockchain to gain traction in supply chain management — and this includes convincing supply chain software vendors on the merits of blockchain too, many of whom are taking a “wait and see” approach at the moment.